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Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom denied clemency
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ready to be executed. Wendell Arden Grissom is set to be executed March 20 for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home invasion as she held her friend's newborn baby.
Feds agree to Oklahoma AG’s request for death row inmate to be transferred to Oklahoma
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that the federal government has agreed to transfer a convicted murderer to Oklahoma to be executed.
Oklahoma Board Denies Clemency for Man on Death Row, Clears Path for March Execution
An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery
Bondi Orders Federal Inmate Transferred to Oklahoma for Execution
President Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general is ordering the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can be executed
US Attorney General Pam Bondi orders murderer returned to Oklahoma for execution
John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution was blocked in 2022.
U.S. attorney general OKs inmate transfer for Oklahoma execution
The 60-year-old prisoner is currently serving a life sentence at a Louisiana federal prison for bank robbery. He filed a civil federal lawsuit seeking to block his transfer to Oklahoma.
A.G. Bondi orders death row prisoner back to Oklahoma for execution
New United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has granted a request to transfer a convicted murderer in federal custody to the state of Oklahoma for execution. John Hanson, who is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison for bank robbery,
Convicted Oklahoma murderer to be transferred back to state for execution
A convicted Oklahoma murderer is being transferred back to the state for execution. United States Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed to transfer federal inmate
U.S. Attorney General grants request for death row inmate's Oklahoma transfer ahead execution
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi granted Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's request for a death row inmate to be transferred to Oklahoma to carry out his execution.
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OKC woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; U.S. Supreme Court orders review
the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a fair trial in the murder of her husband considering prosecutors’ use of salacious details of her ...
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Clemency denial paves the way for Oklahoma's first execution of 2025
Wendell Grissom was convicted in the 2005 murder of Amber Dawn Matthews, while she was protecting her friend’s children ...
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Death Penalty Fast Facts
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...